USA Today notes that an experiment was conducted by having 33 obese girls read Lake Rescue by Annie Bryant. The book is part of the Beacon Street Series for young adults.
The book deals with an overweight character, one that goes rock climbing and hiking with her friends and comes to make healthy food choices.
The article notes the following:
“At the end of six months, the girls who read Lake Rescue had experienced a .71 drop in their body mass index percentile (BMI), a number that incorporates, age, height and weight. Those girls who read other novel had a .33 percentile drop in BMI and those who didn't read a book had a .05 percentile increase. These differences were small but statistically significant.”
The product description states:
“It's the seventh grade "outdoor education trip" to Lake Rescue! Adventure girl Charlotte's excited; city girls Katani and Isabel are not so sure. Of course, outdoor sports are right up Avery's alley, but bugs, snakes, and bears are so not up Maeve's.
But no self-respecting BSG wants to miss out on adventures, and the week at Lake Rescue has more than its share: rock climbing, an unfortunate canoeing incident for a Queen of Mean, a hike that turns dangerous -- and the chance for one classmate to discover strengths she didn't know she had.”
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